Abusive Chicago Cop Hoarded Racist Websites for Years
Source: Daily Beast
A Chicago Police sergeant sued for beating an African-American woman while she was in handcuffs owned at least two websites with racial slurs in the URL.
Kelly Weill
07.13.17 9:00 PM ET
Before he was accused of beating a handcuffed African-American woman, a Chicago Police sergeant registered a racist URL: n**gadown.com.
George Granias, a sergeant at the heart of a recently settled police brutality lawsuit, purchased at least two websites with racial slurs in their titles, his alleged victim’s lawyer says. The domain names include URLs like n**gaguns.com, the legal team first told CBS Chicago. An investigation by The Daily Beast revealed a series of other domains registered to Granias’ name and address, including “murdertech.com,” “necroarmy.com,” and in a jab to Illinois’ former governor, “patquinnsucks.com”.
In December 2013, Granias registered n**gadown.com, internet records show. Three months later, police arrested Patasa Johnson, a Chicago woman, at a traffic stop. Johnson’s arresting officer accused her of driving drunk, a charge she denied, and which was later dropped. The officer cuffed her in the back of a squad car and drove her to a police station, where “Granias grabbed [Johnson] from the back of the car,” and roughly escorted her into the station, according to a lawsuit Johnson filed against the city in 2015. “Inside the station, Defendant Granias beat [Johnson] while [Johnson] was in hand-cuffs.”
Johnson required medical treatment for her injuries, and later reached a settlement agreement with the city. The city is expected to shell out a $185,000 settlement, the details of which are still being finalized.
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How do you "hoard" websites?
"Hoard"
traditionally) implies keeping a supply of something that is desirable to others. I'm not ready to believe that there were masses of people wanting those domain names.
And, in the new "Hoarders" terminology of people just keeping vast amounts of crap, unless his domain names numbered in the hundreds, what is mentioned is not "hoarding" in the new sense of the word either.
Don't get me wrong, I'm happy to see this despicable person get exposed for what he is, but the headline bothers me.
Words mean things.